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katrina, a recession and the bp spill. people's confidence is back. a bit of the old swagger. >> boom, boom, right after another. we feel like america's on the uptick now and we feel like it's a good time to go ahead and start our project. >> reporter: people here sense just maybe they're on a roll again. mark strassmann, cbs news, biloxi, mississippi. >>> joining us now from jackson t state capital, is haley barbour. governor, good morning. >> thanks, chris. glad to be here. >> that swagger that biloxi is getting back right now. we talk about it, this gulf coast city that's been battered by katrina, the recession and the oil spill. i want to show you a graphic of the money investors are pouring in since katrina. 117 million into residential construction, 716 million into commercial construction. what do you think accounts for the surge of this rebuilding in this area? >> i thought jerry said it well, the money is loosening up a bit. biloxi had other issues. right after katrina, which utterly obliterated the beach, first, they had to rebuild u.s. 90,
katrina, a recession and the bp spill. people's confidence is back. a bit of the old swagger. >> boom, boom, right after another. we feel like america's on the uptick now and we feel like it's a good time to go ahead and start our project. >> reporter: people here sense just maybe they're on a roll again. mark strassmann, cbs news, biloxi, mississippi. >>> joining us now from jackson t state capital, is haley barbour. governor, good morning. >> thanks, chris. glad to...
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almost six years after katrina, and one year after the b.p. oil spill, new orleans has a new mayor with a new plan on how to run the city. mitch landrieu says it's time to rebuild this place, not into what it was, but into what it can be. as we first told you in may, he brings his own brand of intensity to the big easy. and like many people who live there, landrieu is in the middle of a love affair with his troubled city, as we discovered when we caught up with him during mardi gras. ♪ ♪ new orleans is a rich gumbo of french, spanish, and afro- caribbean culture that's been slow cooking for three centuries. tourism here is a $5 billion a year industry, and the biggest draw is mardi gras. ♪ ♪ beneath the mardi gras masks and the makeup, buried deep in the music, is an energy in new orleans like no place else in america, and mayor mitch landrieu moves to it with his own rhythm of leadership. i get the impression that you're having as much fun as the people are. >> mitch landrieu: i love mardi gras. i'm a street rat. i told you, i really,
almost six years after katrina, and one year after the b.p. oil spill, new orleans has a new mayor with a new plan on how to run the city. mitch landrieu says it's time to rebuild this place, not into what it was, but into what it can be. as we first told you in may, he brings his own brand of intensity to the big easy. and like many people who live there, landrieu is in the middle of a love affair with his troubled city, as we discovered when we caught up with him during mardi gras. ♪ ♪...
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. >>> and hero dog, rescued from katrina, hooper the lab has found a new home and a new career, helping kids learn to read and pawing his own memoir, "early" this saturday morning, july 16th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >> new york city waking up to a saturday morning, thanks for being with us and good morning. welcome to "the early show." i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell. hazy day, going to be nice later. >> can't wait for that. >>> dead lock talks to raise the nation's debt limit. as the august 2nd deadline approaches, lawmakers are negotiating behind closed doors trying to come up with their own fallback plans. whit johnson is at the white house with the latest. whit, good morning. >> russ good morning to you. today is the deadline president obama set for congressional leaders to come up with dicit reduction plans that could actually pass congress. he remains convinced that most americans, including republicans want a balanceed aagreement. >> the request he is, at what point do folks over there start listening to the people who put them in office? now is a good time. >> re
. >>> and hero dog, rescued from katrina, hooper the lab has found a new home and a new career, helping kids learn to read and pawing his own memoir, "early" this saturday morning, july 16th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >> new york city waking up to a saturday morning, thanks for being with us and good morning. welcome to "the early show." i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell. hazy day, going to be nice later. >> can't wait for that....
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. >> reporter: he retired katrina years ago to spend more time with his wife, mary lynn. but his passion for band never went away. he dreamed of forming a top-notch community band in troy. but this is a small town with not a ton of top-notch talent. >> i didn't think it would work. i really didn't. >> reporter: fortunately, there was one thing johnny hadn't considered. the devotion of his former students. now once a week during concert season, they drive in from all over the south and across the decades. 65-year-old bobby johnson was in long's first college class. he lives in atlanta and drives three hours each way to practice. what is it about johnny long that makes you drive such a long way? >> he's such a unique character. i just admire him so much. >> reporter: the note i heard echo in this rehearsal hall 50 times over. >> he just has the energy field around him, and you're just consumed in it. >> reporter:. >> he's the single biggest influence on my career. >> he's a father figure to me. he's just a genuine person. >> when all is said and done, what do you want to be
. >> reporter: he retired katrina years ago to spend more time with his wife, mary lynn. but his passion for band never went away. he dreamed of forming a top-notch community band in troy. but this is a small town with not a ton of top-notch talent. >> i didn't think it would work. i really didn't. >> reporter: fortunately, there was one thing johnny hadn't considered. the devotion of his former students. now once a week during concert season, they drive in from all over the...
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. >> we have a few years like katrina that affect it. but if you disregard katrina, which is a major event, on the average, the amount of money coming in equals the amount of money going out. >> reporter: but at the moment, fema's national flood insurance program is almost $20 billion in debt. while congress has extended the program until september of this year, there is an effort in washington to dismantle the entire program by the end of 2013. this is meantime, catlin schaefer with fema says her agency's old maps had become just that, old and outdated. >> the old maps were hard to use. they were hard to access. and they were expensive to update. we converted them to a digital format to make them compatible with many of the digital products like google earth and some of the things that we have come to accept in today's world. >> reporter: she says fema engineers use topography the lay of the land, hydrology, the volume of water, and hydraulics, how fast the water flows to determine risk. janet says those factors don't add up on her prop
. >> we have a few years like katrina that affect it. but if you disregard katrina, which is a major event, on the average, the amount of money coming in equals the amount of money going out. >> reporter: but at the moment, fema's national flood insurance program is almost $20 billion in debt. while congress has extended the program until september of this year, there is an effort in washington to dismantle the entire program by the end of 2013. this is meantime, catlin schaefer...
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. >> we have a few years like katrina that affect it, but if you disregard katrina which is a major event, on the average, the amount of money coming in equals the amount of money going out. >> reporter: but at the moment, fema's national flood insurance program is almost $20 billion in debt. while congress has extended the program until september of this year, there is an effort in washington to dismantle the entire program by the end of 2013. in the meantime, kathleen schaefer with fema says her agency's old maps had become just that, old and outdated. >> the old maps were hard to use. they were hard to access. and they were expensive to update. we converted them to a digital format to make them compatible with many of the digital products like google earth and some of the things that we have kind of come to accept in today's world. >> reporter: schaefer says fema engineers use topography, the lay of the land, hydrology, the volume of water, and hydraulics, how fast the water flows, to determine risk. janet ashley says those factors don't add up on her property. however, she is purchasi
. >> we have a few years like katrina that affect it, but if you disregard katrina which is a major event, on the average, the amount of money coming in equals the amount of money going out. >> reporter: but at the moment, fema's national flood insurance program is almost $20 billion in debt. while congress has extended the program until september of this year, there is an effort in washington to dismantle the entire program by the end of 2013. in the meantime, kathleen schaefer...
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katrina szish is here to tell us all about it. nice to see you. >> nice to see you too. this documentary takes you into the world of bruk brennaman and his amazing way with horses. >> i don't know if i would have made it without horses. i don't know. i hate to think of it. everything you do with a horse is a dance. >> reporter: buck brennaman has been called a sage on horseback, sharing his wisdom at horse training clinics across the country. his near magical methods provided real life inspiration for the novel and film "the horse whisperer." >> it's not like a take a hold of a horse's ear like it's an old-fashioned telephone and speak into it but the communication with the horse really is your body language, your presence. that's why a lot of people don't get along too good with horses because they underestimate how much he is really taking in, how much he's aware of. >> reporter: instead of using traditional methods to break a horse with whips, ropes and fear buck believes in creating a relationship with respect and instinct. >> one of the biggest challenges of a horse
katrina szish is here to tell us all about it. nice to see you. >> nice to see you too. this documentary takes you into the world of bruk brennaman and his amazing way with horses. >> i don't know if i would have made it without horses. i don't know. i hate to think of it. everything you do with a horse is a dance. >> reporter: buck brennaman has been called a sage on horseback, sharing his wisdom at horse training clinics across the country. his near magical methods provided...
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katrina destroyed his home, but not his livelihood. pete took us to the gulf where he makes his living shrimping these waurdz. >> that's nice shrimp in there. >> eight, nine, ten. >> this is coming from this lake and this part of the world, 100% edible and safe and healthy and clean and as fresh azure going to get it. >> would i stake my life on it. >> reporter: one thing for sure, this is the freshest and cleanest catch that you can get. buyers, however, are still cautious. >> my profits are still off roughly between 35% and 45%. >> reporter: fortunately, the oil spill hasn't scared away restaurant owners like this owner who runs "august" a big easy institution. >> great to have you here. >> reporter: he has always about an an ambassador of gulf seafood. >> our seafood has really never been better. >> reporter: be we got right to work on a classic new orleans dish. >> it's still one of my favorite dishes. one of the first dishes i ever made in my life shrimp creole. >> he is putting me to work already. >> toss it. put me to work. >> c
katrina destroyed his home, but not his livelihood. pete took us to the gulf where he makes his living shrimping these waurdz. >> that's nice shrimp in there. >> eight, nine, ten. >> this is coming from this lake and this part of the world, 100% edible and safe and healthy and clean and as fresh azure going to get it. >> would i stake my life on it. >> reporter: one thing for sure, this is the freshest and cleanest catch that you can get. buyers, however, are still...
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. >> government hasn't done this since katrina back in 2005. what has this done for gas prices? >> this is really the problem because dipping into the strategic petroleum reserve hasn't created the oomph for american consumers they were initially looking for. gasoline prices at the pump dropped about a nickel. now all of a sudden you see them going back up, climbing again and that is a problem as far as keeping prices lower. the whole idea behind this was we'll take some out of the strategic petroleum reserve and push prices down. now they are going back up again. >> let's talk about driving habits for americans now. the current average is $3.58, it is still way up. >> still more than 80 cents higher than it was last year. that's a problem as well. but americans are dealing with that in an interesting way. they are cutting back on their own driving for 15 straight weeks mastercard spending data polls show american consumers have cut back on their gasoline consumption. so we have seen demands drop in light of the higher prices. >> okay. so demand is coming down then why are the p
. >> government hasn't done this since katrina back in 2005. what has this done for gas prices? >> this is really the problem because dipping into the strategic petroleum reserve hasn't created the oomph for american consumers they were initially looking for. gasoline prices at the pump dropped about a nickel. now all of a sudden you see them going back up, climbing again and that is a problem as far as keeping prices lower. the whole idea behind this was we'll take some out of the...
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you actually compare it to hurricane katrina as a model. >> yeah. think of the danger that we imagined when we saw hurricane katrina rolling into the gulf of mexico. well, imagine we had a demographic wave coming at america for which we were unprepared. there is probably two or three dangers we ought to be thinking about way ahead of time so we don't find ourselves in a state of calamity. there's good news with the age wave. a chance to live longer, know your grandchildren and maybe reinvent yourself at 80. but the three dangers that i see, and i have been studying this now for 37 years, are number one, do we have the right health technology in place to eliminate some of these horrible diseases of aging like alzheimer's and heart disease and stroke, or are we going to have pandemics of late life disease which will ruin people's lives, ruin their families and frankly bankrupt the economy. so i say vote for science to try to wipe out these diseases. >> right. >> second, people are going to have to be far more responsible for saving smarter and longer,
you actually compare it to hurricane katrina as a model. >> yeah. think of the danger that we imagined when we saw hurricane katrina rolling into the gulf of mexico. well, imagine we had a demographic wave coming at america for which we were unprepared. there is probably two or three dangers we ought to be thinking about way ahead of time so we don't find ourselves in a state of calamity. there's good news with the age wave. a chance to live longer, know your grandchildren and maybe...